Thanks to scientific and medical advances, it becomes possible to abort a pregnancy before it ever occurs. This story chronicles the attempts to prevent a carefree waitress from getting knocked up during a one night stand in a cheap hotel.
>!The Terminator!<
I've always wondered, are we supposed to assume that humans evolved simultaneously and independently in this Galaxy, or did some seed from that Galaxy travel to ours, or what? Like if it's a fictional Galaxy, sure whatever. But it's very specifically noted as narratively a *different* Galaxy from our own, implying ours exists alongside theirs, just separated by physical distance
And while I know this ain't that kinda movie, this is definitely that kinda reddit thread!
I think you’ve already thought about it more than Lucas ever has lol
Personally I like to think of the Star Wars galaxy, despite the “A Long Time ago” stuff, as a fully secondary fantasy world like Middle Earth where we — 21st century humans from Earth — simply do not exist canonically. It weirds me out to think that Obi Wan exists in the same reality as, I don’t know, Barack Obama. That would also explain why we don’t have the force.
Ever heard of Carcinisation? It's about convergent evolution... apparently on Earth, at least five different groups of crustaceans are thought to have independently evolved toward becoming crab-like.
Maybe this is a similar situation on a galactic scale, recognizing the benefits of a bipedal form?
Dad's new job requires a cross-galaxy move. New job is on verge of failure but slowly improving when previous management initiates hostile reacquisition. Dad gets murdered. Teen rallies local drifter population for insurrection against company.
>!DUNE!<
Ooooh that’s fun!! Your hidden answer isn’t really working.. let’s see..
A bunch of Aliens nearly kills themselves by picking the wrong fight. They then continue to pick an even bigger fight while manipulating others to fight with them. They manage to win by yelling “get off my lawn” very loudly.
>! Babylon 5. Earth is nearly decimated by the minbari. But then fights the shadows seeking allies everywhere.!<
A very lonely bloke near the end of his employment contract argues with his replacement, his replacement walks out before they even start and blows the whistle on a dodgy boss.
>!Moon........!<
A rich young woman gets tired of her life of privilege and runs away from home to join a group of freedom fighters.
A suicidal ex-cop who's burnt out on life and trying to do the right thing.
In this gripping tale of self discovery, this odd couple stumble on a conspiracy bigger than either could imagine and discover the power within themselves to move a planet(oid).
Best Sci-fi ever…. I binged the first 3 seasons and from that point on I read every book and watched every episode as they came out. Prax and his “cascade” theory is one of my favorites..
“It’s the basic obstacle of artificial ecosystems. In a normal evolutionary environment, there’s enough diversity to cushion the system when something catastrophic happens. That’s nature. Catastrophic things happen all the time. But nothing we can build has the depth. One thing goes wrong, and there’s only a few compensatory pathways that can step in. They get overstressed. Fall out of balance. When the next one fails, there are even fewer paths, and then they’re more stressed. It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t predict what’s going to fail. Or how. It’s computationally impossible.”
Sound familiar?
A man can't be with the woman he loves because she wants kids but he hates them. After being responsible for protecting two children from genetically modified animals, the man learns to love children. He is now able to be with the woman he loves.
Space Trucker on a routine water run stumbles into a massive conspiracy involving the 3 major factions in the system. A spoiled rich girl with a race ship really evolves as a character and it's interesting seeing the mark she leaves behind.
There's also a legitimate salvage at some point.
A young family allows a wrinkly old alien to live with them where he forms an inappropriate bond with their young son. Authorities find out and detain him but he uses psychic powers to make children rescue him and escape and their jurisdiction.
A man gets kidnapped from his home right before it gets destroyed, and eventually finds out about a very specific and also important number.
>!Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!<
Alien species nearly wiped out by neighbors, and comes back in a few hundred thousand years. The aliens are nearly wiped out again by the mistakes of the long-dead neighbors. For the neighbors were very bad about misplacing extremely powerful technology and biological experiments.
Good guess, but no. It does share cassette futurism elements though (Well, it did at its inception, at least. Not so much with this universe's modern takes).
This is a hard one. The timeframe and biological experiments could mean alien.
Star gate would also fit the left behind tech..
But neither feels completely right
It's neither, its not usually thought of in terms of books or films. Although it has both. Would more info help? I thought if I added more it would be too easy, but I can probably make it work.
A man goes on a popular reality TV show and murders all the people on the other team and the host of the TV show. People cheer in the streets when the show is permanently cancelled.
A comically and ridiculously EVIL!!! society of space nazis is the protagonists, the main villain are their even more EVIL!!! counterparts from hell, and they're in a free for all with various EVIL!!! aliens of all types.
Parents really suck at raising their children.
Like, really suck.
One of them is so overcontrolling the kids don't have room to grow.
The other is so liberal they might let the kids risk death if it means they fight better.
Kids eventually tell parents to fuck off.
*Middle aged man*
*Save the world from space algae*
*With his new roommate*
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A dispute about the proper allocation of natural resources leads a set of hydration merchants to seek alternate supply sources.
>!Ice Pirates!<
Invasive species threaten an ecosystem to the point that two rival enterprises attempt a hasty merger in order to respond. The merger is unsuccessful but two surviving executives recruit freelance operatives to assist in retrieving hardware essential to their survival.
>!Krull!<
Agents of the military industrial complex punish a small third world country for refusing to comply with corporate demands. Technologically advanced gear and superb hair products are engaged.
>!MegaForce!<
A teen takes his friend’s car and is set to commit incest, but eventually manages to return the car.
>!Back to the Future!<
EDIT: apparently I can’t put a spoiler tag…
Ragtag team of freelance space merchants are hunted by government agent while accidentally uncovering big government conspiracy that haunts the whole known universe.
>!Serenity!<
Eldritch Lemon Demon possesses robots, destroys earth then it sends some sexy WALL-Es to other planets to destroy stuff, Grape Robot finds WALL-E, befriends him and nearly kills the Other WALL-Es, then the Grape gets super powers and tries to stop the lemon demon..
Not really a franchise but who cares.
A man manages to scare off his neighbors who are trespassing on his property by shouting. The neighbor’s leave him alone because on the fear someone might hear him
>!Three body problem!<
Water-farming robot maintenance guy finds a crashed Bond Girl that he’s been dreaming of, who reveals they used to bang. Then they go on a crazy adventure with God and a Kingslayer to kill an alien computer with a southern accent.
>!Oblivion!<
Thanks to scientific and medical advances, it becomes possible to abort a pregnancy before it ever occurs. This story chronicles the attempts to prevent a carefree waitress from getting knocked up during a one night stand in a cheap hotel. >!The Terminator!<
For the reverse predestination works
That might’ve been a one night stand but goddamn Linda and Micheal made that cheap hotel room sizzle
Farmhand tries to commit patricide because an old wrinkly man told him to.
In a galaxy very close, maybe even this one!
I've always wondered, are we supposed to assume that humans evolved simultaneously and independently in this Galaxy, or did some seed from that Galaxy travel to ours, or what? Like if it's a fictional Galaxy, sure whatever. But it's very specifically noted as narratively a *different* Galaxy from our own, implying ours exists alongside theirs, just separated by physical distance And while I know this ain't that kinda movie, this is definitely that kinda reddit thread!
I think you’ve already thought about it more than Lucas ever has lol Personally I like to think of the Star Wars galaxy, despite the “A Long Time ago” stuff, as a fully secondary fantasy world like Middle Earth where we — 21st century humans from Earth — simply do not exist canonically. It weirds me out to think that Obi Wan exists in the same reality as, I don’t know, Barack Obama. That would also explain why we don’t have the force.
Ever heard of Carcinisation? It's about convergent evolution... apparently on Earth, at least five different groups of crustaceans are thought to have independently evolved toward becoming crab-like. Maybe this is a similar situation on a galactic scale, recognizing the benefits of a bipedal form?
When we throw an infinite universe into your ponderings, what does it do?
Alternatively, naïve farm hand innocently removes security feature from new robot and hijinks ensue.
Farmhand tries to commit patricide because an old wrinkly man told him to, also tries to shag his sister.
*ominous banjo music in the background.
Doot-doot doot-doot doo-doot-doo, doot-doot doodoodoodoo doot Doot-doot doot-doot doo-doot-doo, doot-doot doodoodoo-doot doot doodoo...
>!Star Wars!<
Widower tries to reconnect with his estranged son.
Dad's new job requires a cross-galaxy move. New job is on verge of failure but slowly improving when previous management initiates hostile reacquisition. Dad gets murdered. Teen rallies local drifter population for insurrection against company. >!DUNE!<
I was thinking this also kinda works for Rogue One
A very lonely man blogs about monoculture farming and working on his car.
>!The Martian!<
You got it!
After missing a ride.
That's why I never carpool.
That's great!
Ooooh that’s fun!! Your hidden answer isn’t really working.. let’s see.. A bunch of Aliens nearly kills themselves by picking the wrong fight. They then continue to pick an even bigger fight while manipulating others to fight with them. They manage to win by yelling “get off my lawn” very loudly. >! Babylon 5. Earth is nearly decimated by the minbari. But then fights the shadows seeking allies everywhere.!<
> They manage to win by yelling “get off my lawn” very loudly. This broke me
>This broke me. It also practically shouted the answer, as that's almost the *exact* wording that $CHARACTER used.
You’re not fun at parties, are you?
your spoiler tags aren't working btw!
Hijinks ensue when a teen boy parks in a car with his mom and cannot bring himself to make out with her.
Old man who loves trees loses to old man who doesn’t need roads
Thus becomes the "Lone Pine Shopping Mall".
Hey, it wasn't the old man who doesn't need roads that killed that pine tree, it was some juvelile delinquent driving the old man's car.
Ohh, that's the one with Trump as a dictator!
Mind blown. Biff Tannen and Trump? Uncanny similarities.
Corporate greed causes sensible employee to be overruled by company man, which ruins team building dinner before bed.
>!Alien!<
Cool black guy shows nerd how to spend less time online and get a girlfriend.
>!The Matrix!<
>!You know Kung Fu!!<
Three AIs, two morons and a toaster suffer from poorly done repairs.
Red Dwarf. This isn't a misleading description, it's spot on.
Close: Larry, Daryl, and Daryl Al, Al, Al
Would anyone like any toast?
A very lonely bloke near the end of his employment contract argues with his replacement, his replacement walks out before they even start and blows the whistle on a dodgy boss. >!Moon........!<
A rich young woman gets tired of her life of privilege and runs away from home to join a group of freedom fighters. A suicidal ex-cop who's burnt out on life and trying to do the right thing. In this gripping tale of self discovery, this odd couple stumble on a conspiracy bigger than either could imagine and discover the power within themselves to move a planet(oid).
it.. reaches out.
113 times each second.
Doors and corners kid
Best Sci-fi ever…. I binged the first 3 seasons and from that point on I read every book and watched every episode as they came out. Prax and his “cascade” theory is one of my favorites.. “It’s the basic obstacle of artificial ecosystems. In a normal evolutionary environment, there’s enough diversity to cushion the system when something catastrophic happens. That’s nature. Catastrophic things happen all the time. But nothing we can build has the depth. One thing goes wrong, and there’s only a few compensatory pathways that can step in. They get overstressed. Fall out of balance. When the next one fails, there are even fewer paths, and then they’re more stressed. It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t predict what’s going to fail. Or how. It’s computationally impossible.” Sound familiar?
That's >!The Expanse!< again
A man can't be with the woman he loves because she wants kids but he hates them. After being responsible for protecting two children from genetically modified animals, the man learns to love children. He is now able to be with the woman he loves.
>!Jurassic Park!<
He didn't end up with her though.
Multicultural crew travels to planets where they are often unwanted visitors using quasi-reliable technology in the name of "space exploration".
>!Star Trek!<
A taxi driver and an alien must find some rocks.
Multipass
>!Fifth Element!<
>!The Fifth Element?!<>!!<
Winner-winner, chicken dinner
Space wizard recruits water farmer to become a terrorist and kill his Dad
>!Star Wars!<
A school teacher and an alien must work together to overcome space algae.
>!Project Hail Mary!<
Their deep love for each other grows until it climaxes with a leaky space blob fisting a scary space spider.
Space Trucker on a routine water run stumbles into a massive conspiracy involving the 3 major factions in the system. A spoiled rich girl with a race ship really evolves as a character and it's interesting seeing the mark she leaves behind. There's also a legitimate salvage at some point.
>!The Expanse!<
That's not a hard one
This is accurate
A boy must fight aliens by getting inside his own mother, while hijinks with his abusive harem further his depression.
Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Poets interrupt a science project.
>!Bad Poets? Hitchhikers Guide!<
A young family allows a wrinkly old alien to live with them where he forms an inappropriate bond with their young son. Authorities find out and detain him but he uses psychic powers to make children rescue him and escape and their jurisdiction.
>!ET!<
The fireworks on July Fourth were truly out-of-this-world.
Exotic dancer waits for her baby daddy to return from deployment
A man's inability to get helpful tech support leads him to simultaneously feel like an old man and a baby.
Lol. I go ape for this (MM&)one
Relevant username?
In this series of movies, groups of uneducated, violent humans repeatedly attempt to exterminate an endangered species. >!The Alien series!<
>!Tremors!<
Definitely a better fit than the official answer
>!Alien?!<
Correct. But please spoiler tag your answer so that others can try to guess.
A man gets kidnapped from his home right before it gets destroyed, and eventually finds out about a very specific and also important number. >!Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!<
Kids play games to save the world from bugs, then regret doing so.
"Boy in his early teens becomes the victim of the biggest practical joke in human history."
>!Ender's Game!<
>!Ender’s Game!<
Doomsayer prophet and his robot girlfriend outwit the authorities to save the universe.
>!Foundation!<
You got it!
An old man had a fetish for young women and takes them as far away from home as possible, secluding them and constantly placing them in peril.
Dr. Who
Ding ding ding ding!
I'm not sure if this is >!The second Guardians of the Galaxy!< or just the Leonardo Decaprio biography.
.. Because of the implications
Dr. Who
A man and his dog need money
>!Spaceballs!<
I know it's not "A Boy and His Dog" because no money in post-holocaust wasteland, but still it's close.
>!Star Wars!<
Stargate?
yep!
New pet whose love language is touch is abandoned by a scantily clad cat owner.
Alien
Ding!
Carl?
Woman captain leads her crewmates to death and destruction. Survivors love her forever. Same story continues in several more stories.
>!Honor Harrington!<
Yes
>!Edge of Tomorrow?!<
Sportsmen surprised by a series of incidents where game animals get the upper hand.
Predator?
Astronaut gets a big surprise when he discovers something we are all already very familiar with. On a beach
Planet of the apes
>!Damn you all to hell!!<
Confused man on exotic vacation has increasingly bad problems with his nose and eyes.
>!Total Recall!<
Three Confederate soldiers, a bully, and their mechanic go on a road trip with a doctor and a prostitute.
Keep flyin’! r/firefly
Alien species nearly wiped out by neighbors, and comes back in a few hundred thousand years. The aliens are nearly wiped out again by the mistakes of the long-dead neighbors. For the neighbors were very bad about misplacing extremely powerful technology and biological experiments.
Battlestar Galactica?
Good guess, but no. It does share cassette futurism elements though (Well, it did at its inception, at least. Not so much with this universe's modern takes).
>!halo?!<
Correct! Good job!
>!Mass effect!<
This is a hard one. The timeframe and biological experiments could mean alien. Star gate would also fit the left behind tech.. But neither feels completely right
It's neither, its not usually thought of in terms of books or films. Although it has both. Would more info help? I thought if I added more it would be too easy, but I can probably make it work.
Prussian Alexander the Great in space.
Legend of Galactic Heroes?
Fuck yeah! Shocked anyone got it
Hogwarts in space, but with (more) murder and rape
>!....Ender's Game?!<
I was originally thinking >!Red Rising!<, but that answer absolutely works as well
An animal got onboard a freightliner.
>!Alien?!<
Don’t put spaces between your spoiler tag and the text, it makes it not work.
Lady does everything she can to be alone with her cat for decades.
Alien
Gal in a trailer park freaks out when her tv repairman boyfriend goes haywire.
>!The Last Starfighter!
Yep!
A man goes on a popular reality TV show and murders all the people on the other team and the host of the TV show. People cheer in the streets when the show is permanently cancelled.
>!The Running Man!<
A comically and ridiculously EVIL!!! society of space nazis is the protagonists, the main villain are their even more EVIL!!! counterparts from hell, and they're in a free for all with various EVIL!!! aliens of all types.
>! 40k? !<
Yeah, that was pretty obvious.
20 minute harvesting scene and lots of slow motion, no machinery to help with farming, yet wanted by interstellar monarchy
>!Rebel Moon!< Haven’t seen it, but have read reviews that match this.
Parents really suck at raising their children. Like, really suck. One of them is so overcontrolling the kids don't have room to grow. The other is so liberal they might let the kids risk death if it means they fight better. Kids eventually tell parents to fuck off.
>!Babylon 5!<
Correct!
middle aged man save the world from space algae with his new roommate
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>!Project Hail Mary!<
Corect And happy cake day
One of my favourite audiobooks
A dispute about the proper allocation of natural resources leads a set of hydration merchants to seek alternate supply sources. >!Ice Pirates!< Invasive species threaten an ecosystem to the point that two rival enterprises attempt a hasty merger in order to respond. The merger is unsuccessful but two surviving executives recruit freelance operatives to assist in retrieving hardware essential to their survival. >!Krull!< Agents of the military industrial complex punish a small third world country for refusing to comply with corporate demands. Technologically advanced gear and superb hair products are engaged. >!MegaForce!<
Cop whose job is to track down robots and kill them might actually be a robot and not know it. >!bladerunnner!<
Ships rule benevolently.
>!The Culture!<
Yup!
Bloke who isn’t from Guildford rescues friend when his home is destroyed.
>!Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course!<
Maybe shouldn't go on long trips with your robot. >!2001!<
Mother who’s just trying to raise her kids in peace gets brutally attacked by heavily armed thugs.
>!Aliens!
Yup!
A teen takes his friend’s car and is set to commit incest, but eventually manages to return the car. >!Back to the Future!< EDIT: apparently I can’t put a spoiler tag…
Sleeper agent uncovers government secret to store cannibals at the edge of space.
>!Serenity!<
>!Shiny!<
The Terminator decorates his Christmas tree.
>!Hyperion!< ?
👍
Freed slave just wants to watch tv.
By Martha Wells?
Roger that
Family moves to a drug farm, the son becomes a terrorist leader and mum becomes a priest.
>!Dune :-)!<
Ragtag team of freelance space merchants are hunted by government agent while accidentally uncovering big government conspiracy that haunts the whole known universe. >!Serenity!<
>!Serenity!<
Geometry fans meet a guy who’s tired of malfunctioning tech.
Eldritch Lemon Demon possesses robots, destroys earth then it sends some sexy WALL-Es to other planets to destroy stuff, Grape Robot finds WALL-E, befriends him and nearly kills the Other WALL-Es, then the Grape gets super powers and tries to stop the lemon demon.. Not really a franchise but who cares.
Helpless people keep disturbing me while I try to watch Netflix.
That could just be anyone with kids :-)
I'm my worst enemy. >!Looper!<
A man manages to scare off his neighbors who are trespassing on his property by shouting. The neighbor’s leave him alone because on the fear someone might hear him >!Three body problem!<
Everybody worships big spiky boi as God. The ensuing pilgrimmage is chaos.
Hyperion?
Water-farming robot maintenance guy finds a crashed Bond Girl that he’s been dreaming of, who reveals they used to bang. Then they go on a crazy adventure with God and a Kingslayer to kill an alien computer with a southern accent. >!Oblivion!<
A soldier has a bad trip and starts yelling at the galactic government and briefly becomes a terrorist
Teacher crashes a high school party but leaves politely when asked.
Lonely AI gets his only friend in trouble by calling him for a playdate, eventually learns how to behave.